I´m sorry
I bent down to pick up the letter, CD and the book that had fallen out of my bookcase. I put the book back, and read the letters, that had got Leon´s handwriting.
Hi Emma, hope you´re having a good time. The CD you´re holding in your hands right now, is actually a DVD, go put it in the DVD player, it´ll show you what to do next. Love you loads, Leon.
I ran downstairs with DVD in my hands. I bent down by the DVD, not caring about that Jody was watching something.
"Oi, I was watching that." Jody said.
"Who cares, this fell out of my bookcase, it´s from Leon, and I´m gonna watch it." I put on the DVD, the screen blinked a few times before showing a video of my uncle Leon.
"Hi Emma," he said to the camera. "And hi you others if you´re there too. Emma, I´ve made some DVD-s, when you´ve got all of them, it´s gonna be eight ones, one about just you, one with me and you, one with you, Levi and Sara, one with you and Levi, one with you and Sara, and three of you and Jonas. Mike´s got the rest of the DVD:s, and he´s gonna hide them, one at the time, and give you clues so you can find them. This is the first one, with you and Jonas, enjoy." The screen blinked, and then showed me, at six years old, with new- born Jonas in my arms.
"Are you happy to have a brother," My dad´s voice was heard behind the camera.
"Yes." Six year old Emma snitched a bit when she spoke.
"And what do you think his name should be?" My dad´s voice was heard again.
"Emilio." Six year old Emma said to the camera, and I could, in reality hear the others laughing at ,y answer.
"Why do you think that?" My dad´s voice was heard again.
"Because… because… because… if we have almost the same names, then everybody will know he´s my brother." I looked down at Jonas, and when I looked up at the camera again, my head moved in slow motion, uncle Leon was good at fixing slow motion and such stuff when he made DVD:s with different clips.
The screen changed, it changed once more, all of the clips were filmed at me and Jonas, but during the whole DVD, I wasn´t older than seven, and Jonas never got older than two. It hadn´t been on, for more than about ten seconds, until I started wiping tears away, but soon they came way too fast, so I let them stream down my cheeks, and dropped down on my shirt.
When the screen changed to the last clip of me and Jonas, it changed, to the same scenario, that it was in the first clip.
"But do you know that me and mum, have decided what he´s going to be named?" My dad´s voice was heard again.
"No," six year old me said. "What´s his name?"
"It´s Jonas." Dad said.
"Jonas!" I said, and it seemed like I tasted on the name, to decide if it was good or not. "That´s good." The picture changed again, and back was Leon.
"Hi again," he said. "I hope you enjoyed that… but now ask Mike to give you the clue to where the next DVD is, call me when you´ve looked at them all." The picture disappeared and the screen was black. I took out the DVD, and put it in the case, before laying it on the table. I looked down all the time, to hide my tears from the others as long as possible.
"Aw," I could hear Jess´s ironic voice. "Was it something too painful for you in that DVD? Oh, poor Emma," she laughed a bit.
"SHUT UP." I shouted. "YOU… YOU… I was gonna answer, but I didn´t know what to say.
"I wanna see the next DVD, I wanna see the next DVD." Jody jumped up and down, sitting in the sofa. I nodded, and turned to Mike.
"What´s the clue?" I asked him.
"Emma?" I heard Jody say.
"Not now Jody, Mike, what´s the clue."
"The clue for the second DVD is…"
"Emma?" Jody asked again.
"I said not now Jody."
"The clue is…"
"Emma" Jody almost shouted.
"YES," I turned towards her.
"Who´s Levi and Sara… and that man that was talking in the beginning and the end."
"You´ve met that man!" I said. "It´s my uncle Leon, he was here remember?" Jody nodded slightly. "Levi and Sara are my parents," I turned to Mike again.
"Just give me the clue would you?" I asked him. He nodded and opened his mouth.
"Pink." Was what he said.
"Fish, bird or in the middle?" I asked, not quite sure if he would understand, but he just smiled, and answered me fish. I half ran out from the living room, and up the stairs, and into Carmen´s room. Mike had answered me fish. So I sat down on my knees and began searching through the floor. And it didn´t take me long to find another DVD, under one of the beds in the room. I took it and walked downstairs again. Where all the others still was sitting in the sofas, I put the second DVD on and sat down on the floor, with my back against one of the sofas, this time, Leon wasn´t speaking anything before it started, so it immediately showed a clip that was filmed at my old school, it was filmed through the windows that were in the wall towards the corridor, the one that was holding the camera opened the door to my classroom, it seemed like, during the time this was filmed, I was ten or eleven years old.
I didn´t look up when… whoever it was walked into the room, but then my dad walked into the picture, I still didn´t look up from the book I was reading, I smiled through the tears when I started to remember.
"I didn´t knew dad was coming home, he surprised me at school." I said.
On the DVD, I was still looking at the book, that I was holding in my hands, though some of my classmates had started to look up, and was now looking at the tall man, with short, red hair, and with an army- jacket hanging over his shoulder. He sneaked up behind me, and started smiling and looking around, it seemed like he was taking the time, of how long it would take for me to notice, and then the screen changed pictures.
The next clip showed me, about five years old; lying in my bead, of course, with dad´s big army- jacket on, sleeping tightly, my dad sat on the edge of the bed, and stroke my hair.
Then it went on, a couple of times, the scenario from the classroom returned, but I still hadn´t looked up from the book, and dad was laughing quietly on the DVD. He showed my classmates to be quiet and act like nothing.
One clip showed a clip that was filmed at the city- hospital in my city, from when I was about seven or eight, I had brain- scan, equipment on my head, and attached to me. Dad stood next to the bed I was half- laying in, and then he held out his hand, I put my small hand in his big hand, and then the screen changed again. And now showed a scenario from right after a seizure, dad sat on his knees, I managed to sit up, just enough to lean against him, he slowly rocked me back and forth, and stroke my back.
The last on this DVD, was the fourth clip from the classroom, and dad suddenly almost shouted.
"Emilia, I´ve been standing here for FIVE minutes."
"DAD." I shouted and spinned around on my chair, before letting go of the book, and jumping up on my feet, I jumped up and laid my arms around dad´s neck, and he held me like that, with my feet about half a meter over the floor. Then the screen blinked, and became black again.
"That mush have been a really good book." Tyler said. I didn´t look at him, because I didn´t wanted the others to see I was crying. The memories showed at the screen, were all happy memories, and thinking about happy memories with my family was so painful. I took a deep breath, and said.
"It was… Harry Potter I think it was. The third or the fourth. I just remember dad coming in, when I was reading through a really exciting part of the book."
Stopping right there.
So, if someone doesn´t understand what fish, bird or in the middle it´s a game. When someone have hidden something for you, that you´re supposed to find, you ask them, "fish, bird or in the middle." And if they answer you fish, you search on the floor, bird, then on high shelves and in the ceiling… and well, you get it.